Deeply grateful for this first review and close reading of The Garbage Poems. What a profound gift it is to review poetry - not just a generosity to the author & book but also a building & sustaining of important creative community <3

Thank you so much for this! <3

"Swanson’s poems articulate such lovely bricolage, stitching narratives as a collage of subject, accumulation & language, stitching narratives from found materials into reason, logic, story."

From @robmclennan.bsky.social's review of @annajswan.bsky.social's latest.

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Thank you so much for being there!! <3

So delighted to see The Garbage Poems on this preview list from @49thshelf.bsky.social - and especially to share it with so many fabulous poets! I just got to hear Katherena Vermette read from Procession this week at Woody Point and it was extraordinary.

Just to be clear, I don't believe Canada has a "right to exist" either.

The Israeli government has effectively legalized the annexation of over 60% of the West Bank, but no one’s talking about it. Here’s what this means for Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

Visual art above by Joana Solà

Have you seen the latest Riddle Fence? Poetry by @amberdawnwrites.bsky.social, @madopiano.bsky.social, SA Leger, Matthew Gwathmey, Stephen Kampa, Lucas Crawford, Christ Hutchinson, Liz Huntly/Jesch, Eva Haas + great fic/cnf too!

Preview of Amber Dawn's stunning work: riddlefence.com/feature/exce...

A non-fiction essay of mine was published with Riddle Fence!

It details a year in my life when my ex-husband had a psychotic break. I’m immensely proud of this essay and so grateful to RF for seeing its merit.

CW: psychosis, domestic violence, trauma.

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Me too!! We're doing page proofs now and it feels surreal after all these years!

Anna wrote about writing the Garbage Poems in Impact, our book about #women and #concussion. I’m a big fan of this project. Support Anna if you can! ualbertapress.ca/978177212581....

Thank you so much for the support @other-jane.bsky.social - both for believing in the essay back then and for supporting the new book now! <3

🍉 Please help us continue to keep the thousands of eSIMs we bought active so Gazans can connect with the outside world

For more: chuffed.org/project/crip...

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every. day.

Oof. What a title. That could go so many places. I look forward to finding out!

This was such a fantastic event! I can't wait for the book to be out so that I can tell people where to read it!

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This open letter calls on @moderation.bsky.app to enact some extremely basic reforms so Palestinians can fundraise to feed their starving families without having their accounts shut down. (For ex: a simple email explaining disciplinary action.) There’s a link to the letter here in the form to sign:

I think this might just be my current favourite Between The Covers podcast episode & that's saying a lot. It's been a hard time lately, for all the obvious reasons, to think into the future. Listening to this conversation is the most I've been able to in a long time & I'm grateful. This book. Wow.

This is a gorgeous book. Seriously. Go read it. @estmcphee.bsky.social

Awww... thank you Rob! It's been a LONG time in the making. It's kind of thrilling to see the cover and imagine it as a beautiful object out in the world after so many years of it existing as files on a computer and bags of garbage in my basement and car and spread out to transcribe on my desk... 😂